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For the second consecutive year, after a successful first edition, THE BAD bring back the MUBI Festan event that, according to the organizers, was created so that film lovers “Immerse yourself in the heart of the cinematic world“This time, even with an expansion to other latitudes of the world.
Essentially, this festival will bring with it a selection of hand-picked films to watch in theaters, along with a program of live events, according to the streaming platform. streaming. “Nothing beats the experience of watching a movie with other like-minded individuals and sharing the joys, heartaches and disagreements that arise in a post-cinema discussion or debate.”, they add,
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As part of continuity and expansion, the MUBI Fest 2024 will be present in BogotaBuenos Aires, Mexico CityChicago, IstanbulManchester, Milan, Santiago de Chile and Sao Paulo.
As anticipated, it is not only about screening films, but also presenting talks, installations, workshops and public conversations with emerging authors and iconic directors. With this, in addition to captivating film lovers, they seek to “bring the audience to the heart of cinema” and thus follow the impulse to develop a community “around the love we share for the seventh art.”
The details… so far
The tapes:
- Drive my car (2021), by Rysuke Hamaguchi, a film based on a work by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
- Made in England: The films of Powell and Pressburger (2024), by David Hinton, with Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker as executive producers.
- The sacrifice (1986) by Andrei Tarkovsky, the seventh and final work by the Russian filmmaker. It will be screened in a 4K version.
- Dahomey (2024), by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop, winner of the Golden Bear at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
- Priscilla (2023), by Sofia Coppola, once a biographical drama based on the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley.
- Rise and fall (2023), by Kevin MacDonald, a portrait of controversial designer John Galliano.
- Gasoline Rainbow (2023), by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, a road movie interspersed with a coming-of-age “that flows freely,” as described by MUBI.
- Close (2022), by Lukas Dhont, a film that won an award at Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar in the foreign film category.
- Don’t expect too much from the end of the world (2023), by Radu Jude, winner of the 76th Locarno Festival and the 61st Gijón Festival.
- Ariel (1988), by Aki Kaurismäki, the second of three parts of the Finnish filmmaker’s Proletarian Trilogy.
- The haven (2011), by Aki Kaurismäki, a dramatic comedy in the purest style of the Finnish filmmaker that won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
- The girl from the match factory (1990), by Aki Kaurismäki, the last installment of the Proletariat Trilogy that specialized critics define as the Finn’s masterpiece.
- Control (2007), by Anton Corbijn, a grim and accurate portrait of Ian Curtis, frontman of Joy Division, based on the memoirs of Deborah Curtis, the artist’s life partner.
- Without any particular signs (2020), by Fernanda Valadez, a modern classic of Mexican cinema dedicated to all the families of missing people in Mexico as a result of migration, according to the director herself.
- The wild region (2016), by Amat Escalante, a Mexican film that won the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2016.
- Battle Royale (2000), by Kinji Fukasaku, a Japanese horror classic based on a novel by Kōshun Takami.
- Paris, Texas (1984), by Wim Wenders, the classic by the German filmmaker starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell.
- Kokomo City (2023), by D. Smith, an American documentary that describes “the lives of four black trans sex workers who face the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.”
- The practice (2023), by Martín Rejtman, the dramatic comedy by the Argentine filmmaker after ten years of absence from the big screens.
- Mulholland Drive (2021), by David Lynch, the seemingly unintelligible surreal neo-noir starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring.
- Oldboy (2003), by Park Chan-wook, a neo-noir drama inspired by the manga of the same name and the second part of three in “The Revenge Trilogy.” The copy that will be released at the festival can be viewed in 4K.
The full MUBI Fest Mexico City 🇲🇽 lineup is here! Get ready for a great experience and don’t miss your chance to get tickets.
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— MUBI Latinoamérica (@mubilat) July 3, 2024
Tickets will go on sale on Thursday, July 4th. The account of MUBI Latin America invites people to keep an eye on their networks, as they did not give more details on how they could be acquired.
The festival, which will be held between July 12 and 14, will have as its main venue the National Film Library located on Col. Xoco, a few meters from the Mexican Radio Institute (IMER) building. At the same time, the films that make up the program can be seen through the MUBI platform.
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